This is a Bukkit plugin that I've been working on for a while and I think that It has a cool original feature that people would like. It allows people with bukkit servers to animate their mtod, server icon, version name, and player list. 

The bukkit page with all the information and downloads and such is here: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/player-count-message/, or the obligatory curse page http://www.curse.com/bukkit-plugins/minecraft/player-count-message 

I don't want to have to manage two downloads so I won't upload the file to Planet Minecraft, Bukkit has a good system for files. All the tutorials are linked from the main page on how to use the plugin and hopefully you will like it. All the documentation on how ot use it can be found on the bukkit page. If you have a cool example of your player count message, send it to me and I may load it up as one of the images show-casing the plugin.

Note, this plugin depends on Protocl lib, found here: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/protocollib/ 

This plugin should be compatiable with Spigot, older versions of craftbukkit, and anything else that that runs off bukkit as long as it supports protocl lib.

Here is the tutorial on how to use the plugin: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/player-count-message/pages/a/usage/tutorial/